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Method for rotating a binary image

US4627020A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 30, 1983
Grant dateDec 2, 1986
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Expiry dateDec 30, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T3/602
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for rotating an image by 90 degrees includes the steps of: storing the image in a raster format arranged in r rows by c columns, image information in each row being stored in a number of bytes, each byte having b bits, there being c/b bytes in each row of the raster format; moving a block of the image into a temporary storage, there being r rows by v columns in the block; separating each image block into groups of bytes of rotatable size; determining for each group if all bits are the same value; rotating each group that does not have all bits the same value; storing each rotated group in an output area of the raster storage; repeating the above steps for all remaining blocks of the image.

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